Coal-hod



THOMSON, SMITH & JENNINGS.

Coal, Hod. v a No. 53,384. Patented March20, 1866.

N. PETERS, Plwln-Lilhugmplmr, Washingkm D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAML. THOMSON, GEO. SMITH, AND JOHN S. JENNINGS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW

YORK, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO JOHN PFETFER, OF PHILA-DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COAL-HOD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,384, dated March 20,1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUEL THOMSON, GEORGE SMITH, and JoHN S. JENNINGS,of Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a newand useful Im provement in Ooal-Hods; and we do hereby declare the sameis fully described and represented in the following specification andthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure I is a side elevation of acoal-hod having our invention applied to it; Fig. 2, a vertical sectionof the same; Fig. 3, a top view of our improvement detached from thebody of the coal-hod; Fig. 4, a section of the same; Fig. 5, amodification of our improvement; Fig. 6, a sectional View of suchmodification.

The nature of our invention consists in a removable bottom applied to acoal hod by means of bolts and nuts or rivets, so that as the bottompart becomes old and worn it can be easily removed and a new bottom putin its place.

In the drawings, A denotes an ordinary coal-hod body, with bail B andhandle 0. D is a flange projecting outward from the lower part of thebody of the hod next the bottom, said flange being united to theremovable bottom E by means of the screw-bolts F F, 8m, and thescrew-nuts G G, &c., or by rivets, if preferred.

The removable bottom E is stamped or pressed out of sheetmetal-sheet-iron, sheetbrass, or zinc, for instanceand, if preferred,may while being so stamped have a recess, H,

for reception of the flange D, as shown in the drawings.

It will be seen from the above that, while consumers in this line ofmanufacture have repeatedly presented to the tinsmith the same old hodfor rebottoming, a coal-hod with our invention applied thereto can beeasily rectified, for the bottom being in one piece, stamped or pressed,can be easily removed and a new one as easily put in its place, theordinary method of joining the bottom to the body of a coalhod by aseam, turning the top edge over and providing it with a wire forstiflening the edge, or of connecting the body and bottom by means of acast-iron ring and bolts and nuts, being dispensed with, therebyproducing a lighter and more convenient article, and at much less cost.

Ye do not claim attaching a cast-iron bottom to a coal-hod, for such isnot new, and, generally speaking, is now abandoned by consumers; nor dowe claim a coal-hod composed of three or more pieces, one of them acast-iron ring, used for uniting body and base together; but

What we do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The above described complete stamped or pressed coal-hod bottom as a newarticle of manufacture, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our signatures.

SAMUEL THOMSON. GEORGE SMITH. JOHN SINCLAIR JENNINGS.

Witnesses:

A. NEILL, CHAS. MORRILL.

